Rant more about hardware

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   because there was no room left to pass the 20-pin ATX connector.
 - Power supply user manual was taped to the bubble wrap, so part of
   the "warnings" section got torn off.
+** maintenance
+*** Front panel
+The case's manual has a terse illustration with two arrows to pull the
+front panel "away and up" from the rest of the case.
+
+Here too, the amount of force required to do that is terrifying.
+Notice how [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUD0HyzVpLg][our friend here]] cuts abruptly at 8:17; that's because the
+levels of violence required to tear that panel off are too graphic for
+YouTube.
+*** Front fan
+Remember that fan from earlier, the one with only 3 holes for the
+motherboard's 4 pins?  Turns out
+
+1. that last "optional" pin is supposed to allow speed control;
+   without it, the fan always spins at full speed;
+2. the fan itself (ZA1225ASL) is [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pd6gDY7LPlU][complete and utter crap]]: it cannot be
+   disassembled, so no cleaning off the dirt, no greasing.
+
+So the thing is loud, it always spins at full speed, and if one day it
+decides to become even louder than usual, you're SOL.